Post by deanna on May 8, 2017 12:05:31 GMT -7
MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THIS SPECIAL EVENT
DEBORAH WILLIS
IMAGINING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN AMERICA FROM EMANCIPATION TO BLACK LIVES MATTER
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 6:00 PM
UNM Campus - location TBD
As part of PhotoSummer 2017 the University of New Mexico Art Museum, in partnership with CENTER, presents a lecture with educator, photo historian, curator and author Deborah Willis.
Images, whether artistic, documentary, or anthropological, are forever fixed in the popular imagination through photography. From the medium’s beginning, race and gender have shaped and controlled the reception of photographic portraits, both politically and aesthetically. Photographers from the 19th to today respond to their own lives and their communities in similar ways. They comment on politics, culture, family, community, and history from internal and external points of view. This talk focuses on the abilities the photograph, the Internet and digital media provide us about the circulation of movement/activist imagery. This lecture will include works by image makers and change makers who are actively involved in changing the course of contemporary visual culture.
Deborah Willis, PhD, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University/Tisch and has an affiliated appointment in Africana Studies. Professor Willis was a 2014 Richard D. Cohen Fellow of African and African American Art History at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University, a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow, and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. Professor Willis has received the NAACP Image Award in 2014 for her co-authored book “Envisioning Emancipation.” Other notable projects include “Framing Beauty: Intimate Moments,“ “Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers – 1840 to the Present;” “Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present;” “Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs,” a NAACP Image Award Literature Winner, and “Black Venus 2010: They Called Her ‘Hottentot.’”
PhotoSummer 2017 explores photography as activism,
action & empowerment
The organizers of PhotoSummer present another season-long initiative showcasing photography in New Mexico. This year the initiative is organized around the power of photography to bare witness, challenge inequitable structures and initiate change. Recognizing the fact that photography has been instrumental to critical discourse surrounding social movements from the earliest years of the medium, PhotoSummer 2017 offers a look into the history and contemporary use of photography as powerful force in society. Exploring complex ideas related to climate change, environmental destruction, gender inequity, incarceration, and race among others – this year’s focus on photography brings pressing and relevant issues to the fore.
Spanning June – September, PhotoSummer 2017 features public programs in both cities that highlights regional, national and international artists, curators and scholars. This year there are multiple venues between Albuquerque and Santa Fe showcasing photography in our region. This year’s line up features artistic workshops, lectures, pop-up events, professional development workshops, and networking opportunities! For an expanded list of participating venues & events please visit PhotoSummer.org
The UNM Art Museum is located within the Center for the Arts complex off Redondo Drive near the UNM Bookstore. From I-25 North or South, exit Central Avenue and travel east for approximately 1 mile. Parking is available at the Parking Garage, east of the Center for the Arts at Redondo Drive and Stanford.
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FREE and open to the public, a $5 donation is suggested to support exhibitions.
For more information visit www.unmartmuseum.org or call 505.277.4001